Kimberly Piazza

Increasingly, when attempting to describe the way I function as a visual artist, a word that comes to my mind is “reporter”. On examining the work I have under my belt – and the ideas I have in the hopper – I notice that my artwork often has to do with reporting on something going on somewhere in the world.

Perhaps it is because I listen to the radio while I work. Radio, and the images it conveys to my mind, filters into my art in myriad ways. News shows, talk shows, baseball games, all kinds of music, old-time radio – I take it all in while I work and somehow what I absorb seems to end up on my creative radar.

This is not to say that I am a totally serious artist and don’t have a lot of fun making my ideas come to life. I relish exploring the various media and methods that can help me best express myself and my ideas. While the ideas contained in a lot of my work are pretty serious, I have a need to integrate my own particular brand of humor into my work.

Shasta College, Redding, CA, studio classes in drawing, design, oil painting and sculpture

Laney College, Oakland CA, studio classes in drawing, oil painting and photography

"Banksters", a solo exhibit, Highland Art Center, Weaverville, CA, May 1-31, 2015

28th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Highland Art Center, Weaverville, CA, September 2012, 2 artworks - drawing "A Little Birdie Told Me" and sculpture "Target Practice" selected for display by Juror, Jon Cummins, Butte College, Art Instructor and Executive Director and Gallery Manager, Chico Art Center. Honorable Mention awarded for "A Little Birdie Told Me".

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art - Fall National Juried Exhibition - August 27 - September 25, 2012; "Double Axes" selected by Juror Rennie Pritikin, Director of the UC Davis Richard L. Nelson Gallery and The Fine Arts Collection. One of 40 works selected from nearly 1,000 entries.

All Media 2012 - National Juried Exhibit - Chico Art Center, Chico, CA - August 20 - September 19, 2012; "Whitewall Flower" selected by Phil Linhares, Ret. Chief Curator Art Department, Oakland Museum of California, Juror

Now U See It - Barking Mad Art Studio - Weaverville, CA, July 7, 2012

Contemporary Woman 6 - National Juried Exhibit - Chico Art Center, Chico CA - May 26 - June 23, 2012. JoAnne Northrup, Curator of Contemporary Initiatives, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.

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